(A) No person, firm or corporation shall discharge surface water upon the surface of any sidewalk within the village. No owner or other person shall discharge surface water from any premises by means of a waterspout, or in any manner, upon the surface of any sidewalk or any part thereof, or by means of an open gutter or ditch across the sidewalk.
(B) All waterspouts or drains for surface water shall be connected with drains or pipes under the surface of the sidewalk to the gutter or other drain provided for general drainage of surface water through which all surface water shall be discharged from any premises in the village. No part of the surface water shall be discharged upon the sidewalk. But nothing herein contained shall permit any waste, filth or refuse water to be discharged into any gutter or street or drain, other than into a sanitary sewer.
(C) The Village Manager shall request the property owner to comply with this section and upon the owner’s failure to comply within five days, the Village Manager is authorized to connect such water spout, drain or ditch by means of drains or pipes underneath the sidewalk to the gutter or public sewer. The expense shall be paid by the property owner and assessed against and made a lien upon the premises abutting.
(D) The Village Clerk shall certify such expense to the County Auditor upon the report of the Village Manager, which expense shall be placed on a tax duplicate and collected as other taxes are collected, or the Auditor may collect the expenses by civil action before the municipal court or any justice of the peace against the owner of the property.
(Ord. 2001-9, passed - -2001) Penalty, see § 91.99